Chapter 12

She clinged to my hand all through and persuaded to drop me off. I opposed but she insisted.

We went to where she parked her car and she put all the baggage into the boot. It was a white model 6, Lexus jeep. She said her dad presented it to her last year, on her sweet-sixteenth birthday. I wanted a lab-coat for my 16th birthday; but my dad bought me a wrist-watch instead.

I only heard her parents were filthy rich. As she was born and brought up in South Africa. Her dad own hospitals in various places, in and out of the country while her mum is a senior advocate in the University of Abuja.

"I so admire you, Aisha. Your way of life and the way you recite Qur'an..."

"Really?... Zainab!" I blushed.

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